Questions tagged [proprietary]
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How to figure out if a certain technology/library is used in development of a proprietary application [closed]
Not sure if the question is relevant here, but basically it is expressed on the title.
I'm curious to know if a certain library/technology is used in a proprietary software. How can I satisfy my ...
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What's the best way to control distribution/usage of proprietary, internal software?
I was tasked with writing software for my company. As I am now writing a third program (with many more coming), what's the best way to control the distribution/usage of our software?
The software I'...
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Why are developers still using proprietary third-party libraries? [closed]
As the open source world is fairly advanced now and you can find an open source implementation of pretty much everything, why are people/developers still using the obscure/proprietary libraries? In ...
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Closed source proprietary web application with an AGPL source code in iframe or sub-domain [closed]
In a closed source proprietary web application, if I use an AGPL product in a sub-domain or in an iframe do I have to open-source my project?
If answer is no, is it possible that both applications ...
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Best approach to develop / distribute proprietary module
I've been brainstorming for a while regarding the best approach to distribute closed-source modules. I'd like to mention that I have found similar question(s) on SE sites but don't think this is ...
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GPL and code producing software
I want to make an online management tool for a server software using GPL licensed software. For the tool I'm fine releasing all software to anyone how wants it. After all, it's not rocket science.
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Using GPL’d software in a proprietary web application
We are developing website that we charge money from members to join it as membership annual cost, so, we decided to put a plan for the second stage so we are choosing now the load balancer that we ...
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Is open-sourcing previously-commercial engines a smart move? [duplicate]
I saw that the Unreal Engine is going open-source on github (see link1 and link2) and that made me wonder: "is open-sourcing a previously commercial engine a smart move?"
What's the benefit to Epic ...
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GPL - Writing an exception for a plugin interface under section 7 of GPLv3
The problem
I've written a application for Android licensed under GPLv3 which needs to use Google Play Services, a proprietary library, as a plugin to the app.
Now I'd also like to add libspotify as ...
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If I try to monetize free software, what could possibly prevent someone from forking that software and creating a proprietary version? [duplicate]
I've only recently begun to learn about the tensions between free and proprietary software, and I've been very confused by the way that free software can make money.
I understand that free software ...
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"Open source" proprietary software licenses? [closed]
I am writing some software that (for once - usually I open source stuff on sourceforge/github/etc.) I plan on selling. To each source file, I want to attach a proprietary software license that doesn't ...
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LGPL and commerical application in PHP
I have rather specific question about licensing but first of all I would just like to state that I already read a lot of Q&A's here but I'm still not sure about the problem in that particular ...
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What are some ramifications of open source software turning into closed source software?
If a company takes a permissively licensed open source application and then develops a closed source application from that by reworking extensive parts of the application, adding new features and ...
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modify source of copyrighted software
There is a a program that I want to use that is released in two (fully copyrighted) ways:
Stable binary form
Beta release, mostly-stable binary form that is easy to derive the source (uses jars) (this ...
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Web Application Licensing - Open Source vs Proprietary
I am developing a web application based on a proprietary (but free) JavaScript API. My company is considering releasing our application as "Open Source", but we are unsure of the different licensing ...
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